Introduction

My name is Kevin Casey. I'm a 5th year computer engineering senior, and I'll be graduating in May this year. I'm taking this class as my final technical elective credit, but also because I think it will help balance some of my other electives and work as an undergraduate which mostly focused on hardware. This is a somewhat older picture of me before I cut my hair recently:


I've had lots of work with micro controllers, although that isn't hugely relevant in a CHI class. Probably the biggest CHI related work I've done is a work in progress - a project I'm working on with a team of other undergrads and directed by Dr. Liu here at A&M for the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition. The project is for an embedded platform, but is very UI intensive as it aims to create a touch screen device usable by illiterate individuals.

In 10 years I would like to be working in research and development in the military/security sector, maybe lockheed martin or something else. Most likely I wont be, thats just where I'd like to be.

I think the next biggest development from a hardware stance in computers would probably have to do with overcoming the low fault-tolerance inherent in binary computing. This is important as computers get smaller and smaller. At some point we will begin to enter the quantum domain, and in order to continue building more powerful computers we will have to adapt our thinking. When we do overcome this barrier though, it will most likely revolutionize computing.

If I could travel back in time, I would go back and check out ancient Greece or maybe Rome. There isn't any one in particular I'm dieing to meet, but I think both cultures were amazing for their time.

I don't really have a favorite mustache, but if I had to pick one I'd probably go with the classic French mustache (also known as a handlebar mustache). This pick is probably entirely influenced by media and movies.

If I could be fluent in any foreign language, I'd probably pick either latin or Japanese. Latin because nearly no one speaks it, which makes it more interesting, and Japanese because I would be able to understand all the media coming from that country (mostly anime).

As an interesting fact about myself, I own an african grey parrot.